We took this short video on our Nordic Crafts course. It was a bit blowy on the Saturday but much calmer on Sunday. What a unique opportunity to make your very own Viking style knife in a pit forge, complete with leather sheath as well as learn Swedish axe and knife carving techniques to carve […]

This video was taken on our Spoon Carving day course in May 2019. It was a beautiful day and the sun shone on us throughout. During the day we looked at knife and axe safety, use and maintenance as well as a variety of carving tools. We also covered different cutting techniques as well as […]

An often recited mantra in bushcraft is that the more you know the less you have to carry. The flip side of this, of course, is that the less you carry the more you have to make. Often the things I find myself making require greenwood and so need to be pruned from a live […]

I thought I’d add a few photos from our first ever Nordic Crafts weekend. It really was a fantastic weekend and the participants made some lovely items (I even got the time to make a leather sheath for my carving knife). The weekend was focused around 2 traditional craft skills – blacksmithing and carving. The guys […]

Back in December we ran a bushcraft day for the volunteers at Stodmarsh NNR; I wrote about it in this post. It was a great day out and we met some lovely people. Ben, one of the rangers at the reserve, gave us some freshly cut hawthorn to take away. We’ve been a bit busy […]

David, who attended our 5 day bushcraft experience in March 2013, sent these photos of his craftwork through to me. They were started on the course and finished at home. Below are a few tips David sent with the photos: “The bark swelled up and stained brown after soaking for 24 hours (i.e. probably too […]

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